I have a horrible accidental habit of making booze. I fill up strange bottles with juice, drink half of it, and then forget about the rest. I usually fill up old bottles with lids so that the kids don't spill it and it will get pushed under this or that. One time I even made a bomb! I did my same horrible thing but somehow the bottle had gotten pushed way under my bed and was there for who knows how long. It was 3 oclock in the morning in the dead of summer when Derek and I are roused by a loud BOOM! (well Derek kept sleeping, I woke up like a shot) I woke him up and sarted investigating what it was and when I stepped out of bed the carpet was wet. The whole room smelled like a bar. I look under my bed and there is sports bottle shrapnel everywhere. We had to move the entire bed and soak it up with towels. It was pretty bad. I have learned my lesson for the most part, but every once in awhile I will do it again. On this day I saw Jude drinking this pink drink and the wierd thing was it was fizzing. Really bad fizzing. So I grabbed it and smelled it and sure enough.Fermented, who knows how old juice, was in that bottle. So I grabbed it and told him he couldn't have it and he uttered that funniest thing!

Two cute bed fellows. Neither of them seem to mind at all that they are squished up tiny. Aww... Snuggle!!

Licking the beaters is the best pat of making a cake and these two know just how to do it!

HA HA HA!! The other night I was cooking dinner and I hear Jude crying, and it sounds very far away. I don't have to search long to find a very sad Jude self-crammed into a dryer. WHich of course was full of dry, clean, WHITE clothes and he is stomping all over them. So as a little payback, I ran and grabbed the camera(it was on the table so it only took me 7 seconds to grb) before I saved him. My guess is he crawled in and shut the door and since it was dark he started panicing. Once e got out he got lots and lots of love, but I think that might be the last time I catch him in the dryer.

Today for a quick activity (an activity a day keeps the tantrums away) I spilt a bunch of dry oatmeal on the kids table and then got out the hand vaccum and let them clean it up. Then I dumped it right bac out and let them do it again. They love to turn it on and have it be such a noise. They love to see the oatmeal dash into the vaccum and I love that I am teaching them to clean while they are having such a good time. Ha Ha Suckers.

So more fun ideas from my recycling bin. I had a plethora of water bottles that I cut up and taped together for a shoot. I took the lids of the water bottles and shoved them down the shoot. The kids had a pretty good time . The lids made a lot of noise going down and more when they hit the floor, plus you could watch them go down through the clear plastic. Then the kids started experimenting with other things going down the shoot. All in all for a free activity it was way worth it. And on a very related note, this post contains naked kids playing with garbage, I think this is my most "white trash" post ever. YES!

OK, so this was one of the most fun things we have done for awhile and it was great. The kids loved it and it ended up being about 4 activities into one. So first off I got an old magazine and just let the kids rip it up. Just let them use all that destructive energy. We ripped it up into little peices and bits and then scattered them all over the floor. The kids were throwing it and rolling in it and just having a great sensory experience. Then I had Jude get the broom and sweep it up (he loves to sweep), then with all the peices of paper scattered on the floor Jude and I did I spy. We looked for color and letters and any other fun thing I could spot. Alice was having a great time bringing me random peices of paper and sorting through it. Then , and this was the best part, I gave each of the kids a net, and threw the papers in large armfuls and told the kids to catch it. Jude kept yelling "Catch that butterfly!!!" He was in high heaven and just loved every minute of it. And all this fun was sponsered by junk mail magazines. Horray!!